List of changes (version 5.50 - 5.51)

List of changes (version 5.50 - 5.51) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 5.50 until the release of version 5.51. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 5.50 - 5.51)

(18.02.03) Release Total Commander 5.51

• (18.02.03) Fixed: Alt+F9 (unpack all): If user gives '.' as target dir, replace by source dir ('.' was causing problems with multiple selected archives)
• (18.02.03) Fixed: Added some missing shortcuts to installer
• (18.02.03) Added: When giving 'random' as the command for FTP keepalive, TC sends commands in random order: 'PWD', 'CWD .', 'SYST', 'FEAT', and 'NOOP'.

(14.02.03) Release Total Commander 5.51 RC1

• (12.02.03) Fixed: Search - go to file in brief view: file was not always visible
• (11.02.03) Fixed: Invalid floating point operation with some HTTP proxies

(07.02.03) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 8

• (07.02.03) Fixed: Short language files (to replace only a few strings) didn't work
• (07.02.03) Added: Better handling for TAR files containing hard links: If target exists on harddisk, copy it to the hard link location
• (07.02.03) Fixed: Access violation when clicking on button bar button pointing to some lnk files
• (07.02.03) Fixed: No attributes unpacked from ZIP files created on OS/2
• (07.02.03) Added: When choosing an icon file in change button bar, allow user to choose all files (*.*) filter
• (07.02.03) Fixed: Immediately change file icon when adding or removing a packer plugin for this file type
• (07.02.03) Fixed: Problem with Multi-rename tool and branch view: Disabled checking of duplicate names in subdirs
• (07.02.03) Fixed: When dropping FTP URL from Web browser on TC, use last used FTP proxy/firewall
• (04.02.03) Fixed: Synchronize dirs sometimes created unnecessary dirs with 2 byte Windows (e.g. Japanese)
• (04.02.03) Fixed: While selecting with right mouse button, start drag&drop with left and release right after left -> selection continued
• (04.02.03) Fixed: Packing: User packs file with plugin, then removes plugin -> Change to ZIP
• (04.02.03) Fixed: Lister: increase maximum length of printer names from 79 to 259 characters (some network printers may have very long names).
• (04.02.03) Fixed: Displaying of special file types didn't take files >2GB into account
• (04.02.03) Fixed: Try to catch more read exceptions in compare tool (for media with a read error)
• (28.01.03) Fixed: Bad tooltip when adding file system plugin to button bar
• (28.01.03) Added: Double click on file pair in "synchronize dirs" opens "compare by contents" (was already available via right click)
• (28.01.03) Fixed: Self-extracting archive: Progress bar display error on Windows NT 4
• (28.01.03) Fixed: Shift+Enter on files with archive extension did not open external program if file isn't an archive
• (28.01.03) Fixed: Avoid that the user uses "Connections" as the name of an ftp connection, would cause problems with section "Connections"
• (28.01.03) Fixed: AVI names longer than 54 chars caused crash in lister (Win9x only)
• (28.01.03) Added: Increase FTP download buffer size from 2k to 32k if speed exceeds 50k/s. Useful for brain-dead ftp servers which wait for every packet acknowledge before sending the next
• (27.01.03) Fixed: HTTP download abort not always working in background transfer manager
• (26.01.03) Fixed: No longer request the 'SeBackupPrivilege' privilege for copying streams!
• (26.01.03) Fixed: Problems with counting size of subdirs

(22.01.03) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 7

• (22.01.03) Fixed: Background transfer manager: don't beep for every failed transfer
• (22.01.03) Fixed: Don't propose names like test.bmp.gz in 16 bit version
• (21.01.03) Fixed: Plugin to plugin copy: Better handling of file overwrite condition
• (21.01.03) Added: Special handling for TAR files containing hard links: Such files get the contents "Link: /link/location".
• (19.01.03) Added: '\' button now goes to root of file system plugins too
• (19.01.03) Added: Partial support for Unicode filenames from other codepages: View, edit, rename, properties, context menu, delete (also in subdirs), copy (only in same dir, but with alias name)
• (15.01.03) Fixed: Last selection couldn't be restored when switching away from TC and back (e.g. when putting copy operation in background)
• (15.01.03) Added: By default, the archive bit is now set when renaming files. To turn it off, add wincmd.ini [Configuration] SetArchiveBitOnRename=0
• (15.01.03) Added: Support for NTFS-compressed files when calculating actual space used (Ctrl+Q or calculate occupied space)
• (14.01.03) Fixed: Ctrl+D could now change to non-existing dir (bug introduced in beta)
• (14.01.03) Added: FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins!
• (14.01.03) Added: FS-Plugin API: Support for Multi-Rename tool! Operation is announced with FS_STATUS_OP_RENMOV_MULTI
• (14.01.03) Added: When adding FS-Plugin to button bar, use name of FS-Plugin as tip
• (14.01.03) Fixed: Duplicate error "No files selected" when trying to copy [..] from/to file system plugin
• (14.01.03) Fixed: When zipping multiple files with total size >2GB (but <4GB), the progress bar will now be correct
• (14.01.03) Fixed: Problems with lowercase conversion in archives

(08.01.03) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 6

• (07.01.03) Added: Keep width of quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) for current session also when user doesn't choose "save position"
• (07.01.03) Fixed: Unpacking of password-protected WinACE files with external WinAce asked twice for the password
• (07.01.03) Fixed: Dragging file system plugin root to button bar will now add button with correct link and icon
• (06.01.03) Fixed: Upper->lowercase conversion not correct for dir with extension in archives
• (06.01.03) Added: Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog
• (06.01.03) Fixed: Could not switch directly from multimedia to html mode
• (06.01.03) Added: FS-Plugins now also support wildcards when displaying files, e.g. show only *.txt
• (05.01.03) Fixed: FSPlugin: In RemoteInfoStruct, the attr field was never set
• (04.01.03) Added: Show error if temp dir doesn't exist (ftp client)
• (04.01.03) Fixed: In "Drive not found" error box, when choosing another invalid drive, this wasn't remembered
• (04.01.03) Fixed: Possible reason for stack overflow in plugin search function
• (04.01.03) Added: cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the starter menu (e.g. for hotkeys). You can define more in totalcmd.inc.
• (04.01.03) Added: cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D), e.g. for cm_opendesktop
• (04.01.03) Fixed: Compare contents not working if left side=fs-plugin and right side=archive with both same file name
• (04.01.03) Fixed: Close inplace rename if listbox is scrolled
• (04.01.03) Fixed: Crash if plugin returned NULL pointer in source name field in ProgressProc
• (23.12.02) Fixed: Crash when trying to search for text in a file system plugin which didn't support FsGetFile()

(19.12.02) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 5

• (19.12.02) Added: Include new unacev2.dll version 2.11
• (19.12.02) Added: Speedup HTML->TXT converter by approx. 20-30%
• (19.12.02) Added: Display name of plugin in lister's title bar when a lister plugin is used
• (19.12.02) Fixed: Disable Shift+F6 on [..] to change current dir if current dir header hidden
• (19.12.02) Fixed: time stamp of [..] updir item not shown if dir has hidden attribute and hidden/system files are disabled
• (19.12.02) Fixed: Wildcards in the form *.txt; *.doc no longer worked (note the ; AND space between them)
• (17.12.02) Fixed: Lister plugin loses focus when user switches with Alt+Tab to other app, then back to lister
• (17.12.02) Fixed: F3 was no longer working in sync dialog
• (17.12.02) Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list also in search results, synchronize dirs and rename tool
• (17.12.02) Fixed: File system plugins: Avoid infinite loop if dir becomes too deep (max. 259 chars supported)
• (17.12.02) Added: Call CoInitialize in thread extracting special icons in the background
• (17.12.02) Fixed: Alt+F1 with line Allowed=ADEF causes reread of A: drive (because C: was forbidden, so A: became default drive)
• (15.12.02) Fixed: Right click on item in "Compare by contents" caused a crash if only partial list was shown

(11.12.02) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 4

• (11.12.02) Added: Right click on a directory in "Compare by contents" selects all files in that dir (if no other files selected)
• (11.12.02) Fixed: Creating dir named \\ caused an access violation
• (10.12.02) Added: Function added to plugin interface to set default ini file location
• (10.12.02) Added: Synchronize dirs now also works with file system plugins
• (06.12.02) Added: New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. | _vti*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view)
• (05.12.02) Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list (line with cursor repeated every ~3000 items)
• (05.12.02) Fixed: Delete icon with DestroyIcon after LoadImage!
• (02.12.02) Fixed: RPM plugin: Detect new RPM files packed with bz2 packer (requires bz2 plugin too)
• (02.12.02) Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: Couldn't open subdirs of dirs containing forward slashes
• (02.12.02) Added: Shortcuts Ctrl+Left/Right arrow (with+without shift) to in place edit of path
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Some more association problems (wrong icon shown)
• (02.12.02) Added: Ctrl+A selects all text in comment edit box (unfortunately the beep cannot be suppressed)
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Installer now writes "DisplayIcon" field for uninstall (WinXP seems to be too stupid to get the icon from the installer EXE by itself)
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Files - Pack: No question for part size when choosing multi-volume packing and target dir is same dir (archives other than ZIP)
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Internal Unarj: Unpacking of single files from multi-volume ARJ didn't work if more than 10 parts.
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Couldn't drag URL from Mozilla to TC if the page title contains an illegal character (e.g. a *, ? etc)
• (02.12.02) Fixed: Unpack dialog: Unchecking of option 'Overwrite files' wasn't remembered if confirmations for 'overwrite read only' were disabled
• (02.12.02) Added: FS-Plugins: Append backslash to name of directory when requesting custom icons
• (29.11.02) Fixed: FS-Plugins: Cached icon bitmaps were not freed
• (29.11.02) Fixed: InplaceRenamePath wasn't used, InplaceRename was used instead

(29.11.02) Release Total Commander 5.50a (Silent update 2), only 16-bit

• (29.11.02) Fixed: 16-bit version sometimes deleted files after compare by content
• (28.11.02) Fixed: Don't replace % by %% in URLs if user gave the URL

(27.11.02) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 3

• (27.11.02) Added: Sort lister plugins with Shift+cursor keys
• (27.11.02) Fixed: When user adds or removes lister plugins, wait with reloading until all listers with plugin windows are closed or switched to text mode
• (26.11.02) Added: Search in file system plugins
• (26.11.02) Added: cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard (Network drives only)
• (25.11.02) Fixed: cm_editpath always edited the left path
• (25.11.02) Fixed: Forward slashes in plugin file/dir names not working (some file systems allow this, e.g. the registry)
• (25.11.02) Fixed: HTML viewer: Fixed problems with spaces in links and with special chars
• (25.11.02) Fixed: HTML viewer: <AREA NOHREF was inserting a link to a non-existing site
• (25.11.02) Fixed: FTP, if file name contains spaces, try chmod command without and with double quotes around name (some servers want the first, some the second)
• (24.11.02) Fixed: If user chose 'Save position' in one screen resolution, then loaded Totalcmd in other resolution, the tabstops were displaced. Now they should be adjusted correctly.
• (23.11.02) Fixed: If searching in self extracting archives enabled, problems with ACE files
• (23.11.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] RestrictInterface=256 disallows file system plugins
• (23.11.02) Added: If Network Neighborhood is disabled, still show Nethood in drive bar/drive combo if plugins installed, but show only plugins in Nethood
• (23.11.02) Fixed: Lister: Couldn't print if no default printer defined
• (23.11.02) Added: Lister-Plugin interface officially documented
• (23.11.02) Added: Button to add Lister plugins
• (23.11.02) Added: Lister-Plugin interface: parser to check files without loading the plugin
• (23.11.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] InplaceRenamePath=0 turns off in-place changing of current path
• (22.11.02) Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if user was too slow with double click
• (22.11.02) Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if window wasn't active
• (22.11.02) Fixed: Path edit was invoked also when clicking on footer

(20.11.02) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 2

• (20.11.02) Added: Internal command cm_editpath allows to edit the current path above the active file window
• (17.11.02) Added: Support for RTF files starting with {\rtf\ instead of {\rtf1
• (17.11.02) Added: Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the current dir
• (17.11.02) Added: Lister: support for "file:///c|/subdir/filename" link type
• (17.11.02) Added: "Skip all" support when deleting also in case of a sharing violation
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Show error if user tries to perform unsupported action on filesys plugin: encode, decode, split, combine, crc, print
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Clear disk label header when switching to file system plugin with Ctrl+D
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Ctrl+B branch view could show 'compressed' attribute for files which weren't compressed
• (17.11.02) Fixed: When deleting a dir which has a comment, the associated comment wasn't deleted
• (17.11.02) Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: F7 new dir didn't place cursor on newly created dir
• (17.11.02) Added: 650 MB and 700 MB default CD-R sizes to split function (btw, you can enter any value you want by hand)
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Press F3 twice on small text file in RAR at end of long solid archive -> Access violation
• (17.11.02) Added: 'Left arrow' in tree view either collapses subtree, or (if already collapsed) jumps to parent directory
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Packing RAR file from search result -> only short path names were stored
• (17.11.02) Fixed: FTPOPEN command ignored the setting to open an ftp connection e.g. always in the right window
• (17.11.02) Fixed: F2 redefined to cm_RenameOnly: Press F2 while cursor on command line -> Rename not focused
• (17.11.02) Fixed: Drag&Drop to drive dropdown list didn't move files when right button was held down
• (15.11.02) Fixed: File system plugin: Yes/No dialog always returned 0.

(13.11.02) Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 1

• (13.11.02) Fixed: Icons not always shown in a subdir if no access to parent dir
• (12.11.02) Added: FsPlugin-Interface: Function to extract icons for specific files or folders
• (11.11.02) Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: encode % sign to %% (because % is used to escape chars like %20 -> ' ')
• (11.11.02) Fixed: Only react to WM_DEVICECHANGE messages concerning drives
• (11.11.02) Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: Could show negative total numbers!
• (09.11.02) Added: Moved OLE comment retrieval to a separate thread, max. wait time 1 second
• (09.11.02) Added: Shift+F4 (edit new file): Use file under cursor as template name!
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Click on button in button bar where program isn't found -> button stays pushed!
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Fixed: Ctrl+D slow when switching away from nethood
• (09.11.02) Added: Split function now uses 256k buffer size (32bit version only)
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Couldn't split files into parts > 2 GB (but files >2GB could be split into files <2GB)
• (09.11.02) Fixed: "Show Win32 tips" checkbox wasn't disabled if tips in general were disabled
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Couldn't view RTF file currently open in Word (sharing problem)
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Comments were not detected if file name and comment were separated by a TAB instead of a space
• (09.11.02) Fixed: After comparing 2 files in sync tool, the main totalcmd window became clickable (no longer disabled)
• (09.11.02) Added: Placeholders %D and %T (uppercase) in file list print dialog (margins) add current date/time to header
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Comment-edit (Ctrl+Z): Show error if comment cannot be saved (e.g. comment file is read only)
• (09.11.02) Fixed: FChanged TEMP subdir from $wc to _tc (Reason: some programs like RealPlayer had problems with the $ sign!)
• (09.11.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams
• (09.11.02) Fixed: Copying files to SAMBA dirs made it impossible to delete them (Reason: Samba reports NTFS file system, but NTFS stream functions fail!)